Victims Describe Ordeals of Loss after ËœUp-Close Meetings with Fraudster LOS ANGELESAfter hearing from 15 victims who described the ramifications of losing their life savings, a federal judge yesterday sentenced an Orange County man to 159 months in prison for…

Phoenix, Arizona - Douglas Ross Zuber, 51, of Scottsdale, has been sentenced in Maricopa County Superior Court to six years in prison and seven years of probation. He must also pay $6,196,985 in restitution to Harvard Investments, Inc., in Scottsdale.…

Defendant Faces Life in Prison if Convicted WASHINGTON Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged today in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing…

East St. Louis, IL The U.S. Marshals Service is currently seeking Rodney Lamont Brown, Thomas Artin Glaab, and Miguel Robles-Moya, federal prisoners who escaped today from the Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, IL. No details on their method of escape…

BOSTON, MAA Framingham man was arrested and charged today in federal court with perpetrating a large scale Ponzi type fraud scheme with approximately 130 victim/investors and losses of as much as $29 million. Richard Elkinson, age 76, of Framingham, MA,…

Governor Jan Brewer has requested that the Arizona Attorney General join Attorneys General of at least 13 other states in their review of the legality of the federal health care bill. Governor Brewer has condemned the federal health package and…

WASHINGTONA 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged in a federal criminal complaint today with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft on its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Christmas Day and with placing a destructive device on the aircraft.…

by Tech. Sgt. Kevin Wallace 100th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs An air-to-air refueling training mission took a special Christmas turn as one Royal Danish Air Force F-16 "sleigh" pilot pulled up to take fuel wearing a Santa Claus hat…

HOUSTONGregoria Vasquez-Salgado and her son, David Salazar, have been sentenced to prison for harboring an illegal alien and ordered to forfeit the residence in which the minor was held. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake sentenced Vasquez, 59, a Mexican citizen,…

Its time again for Arizonas bald eagles to begin their breeding activities, and outdoor recreationists are asked to help protect important breeding areas by honoring the closure of 20 areas across the state. Various land and wildlife management agencies close…

PHOENIXA 40-count indictment, returned by a federal grand jury, was unsealed today charging five defendants in a $160 million Ponzi scheme. The indictment charges Duane Hamblin Slade, 38, of Austin, Texas; Guy Andrew Williams, 38, of Mesa, Arizona; Brent F.…

Largest Recovery of Money for Hazardous Waste Clean Up Ever WASHINGTONAs a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and restoration under a bankruptcy reorganization of American Smelting and…